Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-05

hosts OF the Phliistines this day unite
the fowls of the air, and to the wild
beasts of the earth, that all
the earth may know that there
is a God in Israel" Between that
time and this time, when he debascd
himself, and bedraggled his manhood,
and affected insanity in order that he
might escape from the grip of the
Gathites. In the one case be played
the fool. SO does every man, who in
the great crises Of life, takes his case
out of the hand of God. The
life of the most insigDilicantman in this
house is too vast for any human man
agement. One time, returning from the
west, very easily got on the locomo-
tive while passing over the plains, and
talked with the engineer; but coming
on toward the Allegheny mountains, ]
thought | would like to sit on the loco
motive as it came down from the
mountains amidst that most wonderful
scenery on this continent. / asked the
engineer if | might ride, but he court
eously denied me, for there the grade
is so steep, and SO winding, and so
perilous, that he must not have anyone
on the locomotive who may divert his
attention when eye. and hand, and
foot, and brain must be ready for the
most sudden emergency. Well. my
friends,
LIFE Is so STEEP,
and so perilous, and S o exposed to sud-
den surprises, that none but the Lord
Almighty can guide and engineer it,
| and our disasters come from the fact
that we want to get up and help the
Lord to manage the train. Keep off
the engine! BE willing to let God pull
you where he wants to pull you. You
have no right for IN instant TO surrcn-
der your sanity and manhood as David
surrendered his. Put your trust in
God, and he will take you through and
owe the mountains. | very much sus-
pect that all the successful enterprises
that were ever carried on, and all the
successful lives that have never been
lived, have been fully surrendered to
God. When the girl Victoria was
awakened in the night, and told that
the throne of Great Britain was hers,
she said to the prelate informing her:
Il ask your prayers" and then and
there they knelt down and prayed. Do
Won wonder that though since that
time all the thrones of Europe have
fallen or been fearfully shaked, hers
stands as firm as the day she assembled
it; and in every country under the sun,
wherever an Englishman hears that
name pronounced, he feels like waving
his hat and crying: God save the
9ueen!' That man and that woman,
who put their trust in God, will go
through in triumph; while those who
attempt to gather under their W SUI
pervision the intricate and elaborate
affairs OF their life, are m%iserably play
ing the fool. I stood on the beach,
looking off upon the sea; and there was
a strong wind blowing, and / noticed
that some Of the vessels were going
that way, and other vessels were going
another way. | said to myself: ''How
is it that the same wind sends one YES
sci in one direction and another vessel
in another directionp" / found out.
by looking, that it was the different
way they had the sails set. And SO
does trouble come on this world. Some
men it drives into the harbor of heaven,
and other men it drives on the rocks.
1t depends upon the way you have
your sails set. All the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans of surging sorrow can
not sink a soul that has asked for
GODS PILoTAGE.
The difficulty is, that when we have
misfo-tunes of any kind, we put them
in Gods hand, and they stay there a
little while; and then we 90 and get
them again, and bring them back. A
vessel comes in from a foreign port.
AS it comes near the harbor it sees a
pilot floating about. 1t halls the pilot.
The pilot comes on board, and he says:
Now, captain, you have had a stormy
passage. Go down and sleep, and |
will take the vessel into New York
harbor." After awhile the captain be-
gins t. think; Am / right in trusting
this vessel to that pIlotp l guess III
go up and see.' SO he comes to the
pilot and says: Don't you see that
rock? Don't you see those h~eadlands?
You will wreck the ship. Let me lay
hold the helm for awhile for myself, and
then I'll trust to you" The pilot be-
comes angry, and says II will either
take care of this ship OF not. If you
vans to, | will get into my yawl and 90
ashore or back to nay boat" Now W.
say to the Lord: 40, God, take my life,
take me all, in Thy keeping! BE Thou
my guide; be Thou my pilot We go
along for a little while. and suddenly
wake up. and say: Things are going
al wrong. o, Lord, we are driving
these rocks, and Thou art going to
let us be shipwrecked." God says:
''You 90 and rest; | will take charge
of this vessel. and take it into the har-
1t is Gods business TO comfort.
and it is our business to be comfprted.
Herbert, the great thinker, phiioso-
phized about himself, philosophical
about this world, philosophical about
everything, then in his dying moments
asked that only one word might be cut
upon his tombstone, and that word